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witness box en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (UK) A witness stand in a courtroom.
   • The same dingy court room, […]; the royal arms above it [the bench] and the little witness box to one side, where so many honest poor people are bullied 1910, Henry Lawson, The Rising of the Court:
   • There's no lie Jenny Prask wouldn't tell to force Joan into the witness box. 1920, A. E. W. Mason, “chapter XXXI”, in The Summons:

Forms

Hypernyms

box

Synonyms

witness stand

Translations (14)

nl getuigenbank (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom) · tr tanık kürsüsü (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom) · fo vitnisbásur (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom) · hi कठघरा (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom) · nb vitneboks (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom) · nn vitneboks (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom) · de Zeugenbank (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom) · hi कटघरा (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom) · nl getuigenbankje (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom) · cmn 證人席 /证人席 (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom) · ga clár na mionn (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom) · fi todistajanaitio (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom) · es estrado (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom) · de Zeugenstand (place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom)